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Firefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] elias_griffin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Mozilla Foundation fronts Mozilla Corporation which is for-profit and brings in nearly a Billion in revenue.

Don't donate, do harden it.

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[–] sviper@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Firefox is good privacy wise, but does not have sensible default. Also there have been times when mozilla have made not so promising statements.

For true privacy enthusiasts see See LibreWolf

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agree, I recently checked further after seeing "sponsored" icons in my new tab page. Had to turn that off. I understand why it's on by default, it's just not congruent with privacy.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say thats less a matter of privacy since it doesn't reveal anything to the "sponsors". More like bloat? Honestly can't find the exact for rn

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think you're right. It exposes whatever IP endpoint you're on to the request but irrelevant with a VPN.

[–] DrVortex@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But...does it sync?

[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Love Librewolf, its default privacy settings are the best I have seen.

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